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do with a murder which was committed within the Moglai jurisdic tion-one does not need to be told. But then, if the Reverend gentleman's anxiety to get the care out of the hands of the Moglai Judge serves to show what little confidence the public have in justice as it is administered by the Moglai Courts, it will be regrettable indeed.
Information reaches me that an order has been recently passed by the Government to the effect that those that are in custody in connection with the Treasury frauds cases shall have to pay the rents of the houses they are lodged in as well as the salaries of the peons that keep guard over them. Have you heard of any thing, Mr. Editor, better indicative of the utter disregard of the rights of under-trial men than this curious order?
Census work has been taken in hand here in right earnest. Mr. Bains, C. S., Census Commissioner for India, who paid a visit to this place lately with a view to inspect Census operations here, commended the management of the Assistant Engineer of the Chadarghat Municipality, Mr. Samuel Cornelius, to the notice of the authorities concerned, and is reported to have made some suggestions as to the numbering of houses in the city. In this connection I might mention a circular issued to the District Officials by His Excellency Sir Asmanjah some time since. This order commands Subhas or Taluqdhars to confiscate the Jagheers of such of the Jagheerdars in His Highness's dominions as fail to make arrangements for taking census in their respective territories, and not to restore them until further orders from the Government. Can :colum go further?
The "Deccan Punch"-a local Urdu weekly-of the 3rd Instant, has a most libellous attack on the Raja Murli Manohur Bahadur. The "Punch" falls foul of the Raja because he is President of the Chadarghat "Hindu Social Club"-and the "Social Club," as you know, memorialised the Nizam's Govern- ment the other day about the scholarship question. "It
